Optimizing for sentence-level BLEU+1 yields short translations

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1979-1994

  Nakov, Preslav ^a   Guzmán, Francisco ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

MERT; MIRA; Parameter optimization; PRO; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

MERT; MIRA; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PRO; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84876788727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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